2024年5月29日发(作者：)
杨浦区2023学年度第一学期高三模拟质量调研
高三年级英语学科试卷
2023. 12
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I. Listening Comprehension
Section A
Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers.
At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The
conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation
and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide
which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.
1. A. Receptionist and guest. B. Manager and employee.
C. Lecturer and student. D. Mechanic and customer.
2. A. Keep them in the closet.
B. Donate them to her university.
C. Sell them to Sally at a low price.
D. Give them away to a second-hand shop.
3. A. It is too late to sign up for the course.
B. Learning the basics is more fun.
C. The woman is not ready to learn coding.
D. The woman should do more exercises.
4. A. Alice will drive Jack to the airport.
B. Alice will cook something for Jack.
C. Jack will be away for quite some time.
D. Jack has missed the meal at the airport.
5. $84. B. $82. C. $72. D. $80.
6. A. She is not good at typing on the computer.
B. She shops online less often than before.
C. She is incapable of writing the report.
D. She is not as busy as she claims.
7. A. Because she forgot which room she had stayed.
B. Because she thought she had been wrongly accused.
C. Because she had left her credit card in the room.
D. Because she wanted to make sure what items she had broken.
8. A. Excited. B. Annoyed. C. Confused. D. Relaxed.
9. A. Wear something formal for the occasion.
B. Bring the copies of her exam certificates.
C. Behave casually during the whole process.
D. Prepare a smart device for registration.
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10. A. He has learned to use the system by reading the manual.
B. He will teach the woman the new tricks himself.
C. It is not difficult to learn to use the new system.
D. It is possible that the rocket project will be stopped.
Section B
Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation,
and you will be asked several questions on each of the passages and the conversation.
The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken
only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and
decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.
11. A. Native people. B. Lawyers in Britain.
C. Non-humans. D. Children in Wales.
12. A. They focus on better ways to tackle climate change.
B. They forbid other creatures to use trees for food or shelter.
C. They recognize the legal rights of the whole natural system.
D. They protect things humans find interesting like trees and pets.
13. A. Defending native cultures by law.
B. Using laws to protect nature.
C. Fighting the loss of biodiversity.
D. Using technology to protect the environment.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
14. A. They can make us focus on the task at hand.
B. They serve as proof of what we have achieved.
C. They provide us with guidance to accomplish the tasks.
D. They can serve as a means to drown out our anxiety.
B. We tend to forget about the warm-up tasks.
C. The less anxious we are, the sooner we complete the tasks.
D. We remember the unfinished tasks better than the finished ones.
B. When we improve productivity.
C. Why our brains love lists.
15. A. We perform the tasks on the lists quickly.
16. A. What we include in to-do lists.
D. How we connect lists with tasks.
Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.
17. A. She turned in a business proposal to the company.
B. She informed the company of her decision to quit.
C. She discussed her future plan with the man.
D. She helped the man work independently in the new office.
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18. A. At the heart of a neighborhood.
B. Near the entrance to the old company.
C. At the center of a night market.
D. Not far from the MRT station.
19. A. A place has been rented for the business.
B. The date has been set to open the business.
C. Preparation work has been completed.
D. A contract has been signed with business partners.
20. A. Invest his savings in her drink stand.
B. Treat coworkers to a drink at her stand.
C. Buy drinks regularly at the stand.
D. Pay full prices for the discounted drinks.
II. Grammar and vocabulary
Section A
Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage
coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each
blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that
best fits each blank.
Going Hungry in the Land of the Rich
The United States is one of the world’s wealthiest countries. Despite this, many
Americans struggle just to put healthy food, or any food at all, on the table every day.
One might think that a food shortage (21) _________ (happen) in America, but this is
not the case. There is more than sufficient food for everyone, 40% of (22) ________ is
unfortunately, wasted every day. There are many different ways food (23) ________
(waste): farmers only pick the best-looking crops, deliveries aren’t made on time,
supermarkets throw out extra products, customers buy more than they need, and so on.
The highest level of wastage tends to happen in the richest communities.
Meanwhile, people who live in poor or rural areas often have little or no access to
food. These areas are called “food deserts.” They have fewer supermarkets, and the
only food options that they (24) ________ afford are often unhealthy ones. Healthy
foods (25) ________ ________ fresh fruits and vegetables may be impossible to find.
Sadly, 12.8% of the American population live in food deserts.
What can we do to help (26) ________ who don’t have enough food? Shirley and
Annie Zhu came up with a solution. In 2017, when Hurricane Harvey destroyed over
100,000 homes in their city, Houston, the sisters got involved. (27) _______ helping to
clear water from a flooded supermarket, they saw a huge amount of food being wasted.
At the same time, thousands of people in the city didn't have enough (28) ________
(eat).
The girls set up Fresh Hub with 10 of their classmates, (29) ________ (hope) to do
something to help. They created an app which could be used by residents to find out
(30) _______ fresh food was available. Then they contacted local farmers and
supermarkets to ask for their extra food. To date, Fresh Hub has delivered more than
15,000 pounds of food to people in need.
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Section B
Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can
be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. normally B. boost C. sustain D. gains E. assessing F. substantially
G. efforts H. mixed I. surprising J. anticipate K. assigned
Your Social-Media Detoxes（脱瘾治疗）Probably Aren’t Helping You
We’ve all heard the supposed benefits of unplugging from digital devices, even for
24 hours. Such breaks are said to (31) _________ self-confidence, reduce social
competitiveness and fears of missing out, and make room for more-enriching, in-person
interactions. Yet studies exploring those effects have produced (32) ________ results.
So a global research team set out to systematically test the idea that social media
detoxing delivers meaningful psychological (33) _________.
The researchers recruited 600 undergraduate students in three places: the United
States, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong. All participants were randomly (34)
_________ to keep away from social media on either the first or the second day of a
two-day experiment. On the other day, they were to interact with digital platforms as
they (35) ________ would. Each evening they answered survey questions aimed at (36)
________ various aspects of well-being. Contrary to the researchers’ expectations, the
one-day detox made no noticeable impact on positive or negative emotions, self-
confidence, or daily satisfaction. When it did have an effect, it decreased daily
satisfaction and social relatedness, although the changes were not significant once the
analysis was adjusted to control for gender. Just as (37) _________, people didn’t use
the time freed up from looking at screens for other forms of socializing. In fact, they
reported (38) ________ lower levels of face-to-face, phone, and email interactions on
their detoxing days.
Even short social-media breaks can be hard to (39) _______ — indeed, only half
the participants in the experiment did what was required and these results suggest that
they may not be worth the (40) _______. “We did not find any evidence that social
media detoxing for one day had significant positive impacts on psychological well-
being,” the researchers write.
II. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases
marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the
context.
Often, we know what makes but, despite this, often we don’t put the
theory into action. Why do I (the person who tells you that taking breaks (41) ________
stress and makes you more efficient) sit at my computer eating my lunch? I know this
is unhelpful for me, so what on earth is going on? It all started at a time of huge pressure
when I was training, and I began eating my lunch at my desk to (42) ________ time. I
did it over and over again until it became (43) ________ to my brain.
My brain will choose this route by default（默认情况下）, because it is the most
learned behaviour. Something in my office (44) _________ (probably my stomach
rumbling (发咕咕声) will send a signal to my brain that it’s lunchtime, and I will pick
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up my sandwich and eat it with very little (45) ________. It is a no-brainer to my brain;
it’s just what it does.
Habits don’t (46) ________ new learning from the brain; they are stored as a
sequence of activities in the brain. The brain adds a routine of behaviours together so
they all happen (47) ________ in sequence when activated by a signal (that rumbling
stomach) to get us to a reward (my lunch), which (48) ________ strengthens that
learned behaviour. Your brain uses habits to (49) ________ effort and save energy, and
will default to these behaviours when signalled. How can we build happiness habits
into our lives?
Step 1: What is it that you want to do
Decide what you want to (50) ________ as small daily habits. Next, think about how
and when you will do this. (51) ________ , consider the habits that affect happiness
negatively and that you want to break. Like me, do you want to (52) ________ eating
lunch at your desk and get outside instead?
Step 2: Be (53) ________ about your why
What will you gain from this new happiness habit? Why is it important to you? This
helps you to want to make the effort to break your default habits.
Step 3: Be specific
Decide when specifically you will (54) ________ your new habit and what you will do
— for example, “I want to go for a walk to connect with nature at lunchtime.” Start as
small as you can, because this is more likely to be achievable, repeatable and rewarding
— three things we need to happen to shift from a(n) (55) _________ new behaviour to
a habit.
41. A. increases B. reduces C. suggests D. excludes
42. A. kill B. spend C. save D. make
43. A. habitual B. continual C. relevant D. remote
44. A. context B. council C. entry D. format
45. A. assistance B. appreciation C. appetite D. awareness
46. A. regulate B. require C. comprise D. consume
47. A. subsequently B. collectively C. automatically D. individually
48. A. in turn B. in return C. by far D. by contrast
49. A. enhance B. attain C. reverse D. minimize
50. A. bury B. change C. add D. delete
51. A. Generally B. Alternatively C. Eventually D. Initially
52. A. enjoy B. imagine C. delay D. stop
53. A. crazy B. calm C. clear D. curious
54. A. engage in B. call for C. appeal to D. give up
55. A. hopeful B. hopeless C. effortful D. effortless
Section B
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several
questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A,
B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the
passage you have just read.
(A)
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Homing pigeons combine precise internal compasses and memorized landmarks to
re-trace a path back to their lofts — even four years after the previous time they made
the trip, a new study shows.
Testing nonhuman memory retention（保持）is challenging; in research studies,
“it’s rare that there is a gap of several years between when an animal stores the
information and when it is next required to retrieve it,” says University of Oxford
zoologist Dora Biro. For a recent study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biro
and her colleagues compared domestic homing pigeons’ paths three or four years after
the birds established routes back to their loft from a farm 8.6 kilometers away. The
study built on data from a 2016 experiment in which pigeons learned routes in different
social contexts during several flights — on their own or with peers that did or did not
know the way.
Using data from GPS devices temporarily attached to the birds’ backs, the
researchers compared the flight paths a pack of pigeons took in 2019 or 2020, without
the birds visiting the release site in between. Some birds missed a handful of landmarks
along the way, but many others took “strikingly similar” routes to those they used in
2016, says Oxford zoologist and study co-author Julien Collet: “as if the last
time they flew there was just the day before, not four years ago.”
The team found that the pigeons remembered a route just as well if they first flew
it alone or with others and fared much better than those that had not made the journey
in 2016.
The result is not surprising, says Verner Bing-man, who studies animal navigation
at Bowling Green State University and was not involved with the study. But it provides
new confirmation of homing pigeons’ remarkable memory, he says: “It closes the
distance a little bit between our self-centered sense of human intellectual abilities and
what animals can do.”
56. The underlined word “retrieve” is closest in meaning to ________.
A. reserve B. return C. recover D. record
57. Which of the following conclusions may be found in the recent study in the
Proceedings of the Royal Society B ?
A. Pigeons remember specific routes home after years away.
B. Pigeons remember routes better when flying with others.
C. Pigeons can find their way back though taking different routes.
D. Pigeons can retrace the path home through an attached GPS device.
58. Which of the following is TRUE about the 2016 experiment?
A. Oxford zoologist Julien Collet designed the experiment procedure.
B. GPS devices were attached permanently to collect data about flight routes.
C. The experiment was designed to eliminate pigeons that missed key landmarks.
D. Pigeons were made to fly from the release site to their lofts several times.
59. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A. Humans need to adopt a more rigid approach to pigeons’ memory.
B. Humans are blinded by superiority when it comes to animal intelligence.
C. Riddles about animals are too complex to be solved in the foreseeable future.
D. There have been mixed responses to the findings about pigeons’ memory.
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(B)
A-Z OF COACHING
Welcome to Barefoot Coaching’s A-Z series. We aim to simplify what might otherwise be complex
psychological theories and models and talk about them in a way that anybody can understand. We
believe that everybody benefits from learning about and practising coaching skills - and it’s catching!
Coaching spreads into other areas of our life and work and the positive effects are felt far beyond
just ourselves. Each issue we will be focusing on a different element of coaching. Last month we
explored Happiness, this month we will focus on Intuition.
‘I’ IS FOR INTUITION
“There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.” Rumi.
If you have ever followed a “hunch”, gone with your gut, listened to your inner voice, or felt “I
just know”, then you have accessed your intuition. We don’t have to reject logic or intellect to
embrace intuition - good decisions are often the result of instinct and intellect working together.
Here are 3 ways to improve your intuition:
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Wild writing. Every day for a week, sit quietly and write for 5 minutes without thinking.
Just let the words appear on the page. Then notice what you learn from your untamed
thoughts.
Walking without purpose. Go for a walk (without your phone or other distractions). Take
notice if you find your attention being drawn to any particular sights or sounds. ldentify
what feelings, thoughts or meaning they have for you.
When faced with a decision, ask yourself “What does my head, heart and gut say?”
60. Which of the following is TRUE about Intuition?
A. It is a born skill that can not be improved.
B. It enables wise decisions when used properly.
C. It is contradictory to the power of reasoning.
D. It guides us to notice the little things in our life.
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61. _________ was most likely the topic for the month before last.
A. Pity. B. Jazz. C. Gratitude. D. Harmony.
62. What can be learned about the Taster Sessions?
A. Each session lasts about 3 hours.
B. A password is needed for booking a session.
C. They run at a fixed time every day.
D. They are free to regular members only.
(C)
In memory of Eleanor
-- a woman ________
[1] Eleanor Lowenthal – my grandmother – in desperate need of income to put her
husband through graduate school, walked into the Harvard Museum of Comparative
Zoology. There, she convinced the scientists that she was the perfect person to mount
（安放）and catalog their growing ant collection.
[2] At the time, a promising graduate student named E.O. Wilson was coming up
in the department. Wilson, who passed away in December 2021, was called the “father
of biodiversity”. When Eleanor joined the department, researchers were racing to
collect and catalog specimens（标本）. As Wilson shifted research towards smaller, less
glamorous species that nonetheless held ecological significance, he set the stage for
conservation biology. Behind the scenes, technicians like my grandmother preserved
the specimen that furthered Wilson’s work and continue to provide new insights and
opportunities for researchers across the globe.
[3] At the time, hiring a 21-year-old woman who had dropped out of art school was
a significant gamble. It paid off. Eleanor’s job as a technician required the same manual
flexibility and coordination that art school had demanded. The job required her to work
quickly, yet precisely. Rushing could risk ruining a rare specimen, but Eleanor could
process ants as quickly as Wilson could mail them back from his expeditions to
Australia and Papua New Guinea. She sometimes mounted as many as 200 a day.
[4]It wasn’t a coincidence that Eleanor found work in entomology. Wilson’s high-
profile research on ants cracked an opening for women in previously male-dominated
field of conservation, which was centered around studying big game in the first half of
the 20
th
century.
[5] Even when women’s early work has been credited, the language used to
describe their contributions often minimized their role in the team, not mentioning them
by name. A recently discovered department report includes lines such as, “A large
amount of spreading and setting insects was done by the lady assistant,” and “The
collection has been remarkably free from pests… due to the continuous care of the
lady assistant.”
[6] The department now functions like a library (specimen can be borrowed for
study or examined on site), and serves as a training center for the next generation of
scientists who use the collection in ways Wilson and my grandmother probably never
imagined.
[7] Eleanor didn’t realize the impact of her contribution at the time – the technician
role was just a job that paid $38 a week. But she’s come to appreciate the significance
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